Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Danielle really expresses the dilemma that I find myself in more and more - how do you straddle the line between an advocate for nonprofits to incorporate social media and throwing some cold water. That is, it takes more than just throwing up a blog or myspace profile or start twittering to make this work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

ve already partnered with 50 non-profits, like Care2 , Greenpeace , and Amnesty International The question it raises for nonprofits is, join an existing network like Facebook or MySpace or build your own social network or combination? For the launch, they???ve comprising the people most likely to give and raise additional money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

They are exploring how non-profit organizations use the Web and the tools available for them in the last three years or since this Wired article was published ( For Nonprofits, Web Is Windfall ). " There some a thread of comments, from nonprofits, consultants, bloggers, and vendors. We turn to "web 2.0"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

So far, I've been getting involved with online communities like Facebook by creating a personal profile about myself, and then creating a group for my organization. If you look at Facebook's terms of service, it says quite clearly that you can't create a user profile based on an entity. pretty much anything goes on MySpace

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

I think of Facebook as a middle ground between business and pleasure, sort of MySpace for post-adolescents or LinkedIn for professional late adopters like me. David Carr, NY Times That quote made me think of Wendy Harman's Facebook Profile. What professional value has your Facebook profile brought you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Allison Fine and I have been busy working on a book about how social media and connectedness is changing the way nonprofits are creating social change. Says Tom, "We don't talk about Facebook or Twitter. Social Media Explained View more presentations from kanter. Social media is described in terms of the mission, not the tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. You already know Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn et al???now now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. Described her organizational's first conversations - our audience is on Facebook and why aren't we there?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

What are the best getting started tips for using Facebook or MySpace for engaging people and inspiring action? What are the best examples from nonprofits? What are the best getting started tips for using Ning or LinkedIn for community building or sharing knowledge? What are the best of the best resources?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2008

Her slides are here and Read/Write Web: Coverage of Charlene Li's Keynote and Nick O'Neil/All Facebook here ). The session about " Driving Fanatic User Engagement and Addictive Retention " was a fascinating overview of game apps on Facebook - the communities, metrics, and how they drive engagement. gspwest08.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Using Social Networks for Social Change: Facebook, MySpace and More View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Ivan is one of a small number of nonprofit early adopters in social media and social networks - he has a couple of years of experience under his belt - so his wisdom is priceless.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

Photo by Cell105 Note from Beth: Last week, I hunted down the nonprofit panel proposals for SXSW including one submitted by me on crowdsourcing social change (see the NTEN blog post ). So do “click actions” like signing a petition and becoming a Facebook fan actually make a difference? Slacktivism 101?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. Gavin's Digital Diner has a thoughtful essay titled " Do Nonprofits Dream of Electronic Sheep?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2008

and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" I started Entry Level Living so that I could share my thoughts and experiences as a newbie in the nonprofit world and in the "real world" in general. What doesn't?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

So, thought I'd take an opportunity to query my network via Twitter and Facebook and see what's new. I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. Many early adopters in nonprofits got started this way - outside of the firewall. Everyone is a Curator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2007

Know When You Are Procrastinating As one veteran nonprofit social networker shared, "If am not careful when I go to a social networking site, I can easily get distracted. Unless your job responsibility is as a 'online community manager' you don't need spend your entire work day on MySpace." And I know I'm not at all unique."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

(See NetGen research and comparison of older and younger brains and how they change with using the Internet ) Allyson Kapin, Frog Loop Blog, in a post called " Reaching Babyboomers: The Next Big Demographic in Online Fundraising " discusses the question: "Should nonprofits continue to pour money into direct mail programs to reach new Baby Boomers?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2009

Yesterday, I attended a webinar about social media policies called " E-Privacy: Can You Legally Monitor MySpace, LinkedIn, E-mail, & Blogs? I did some additional research on Facebook to look at how different nonprofit people fill out their individual profiles. Source: www.facetime.com/survey08/summary/. Brownstone, Esq.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2008

Ask for a show of hands, who has heard of Myspace? Who has heard of Facebook? Urban League Facebook page ) We're so delighted that we decided to give away one more book! Share a couple sentences about your experience from your nonprofit organization, or point to an excellent resource and add a sentence to describe it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Laura White wonders whether " Twitter and Facebook, will they change the way we connect and communicate ? million users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

The nonprofit technology community is aksing: " What will Google Open Social mean for nonprofits? " Allan Benamer answers : Not much because the average nonprofit does not have the infrastructure and skill sets that would allow for rapid adoption for new technology. t even begun to take advantage of the Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Media Genius View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: nonprofit socialmedia ). However, I know there is a lot of expertise and knowledge about social media and nonprofit use out there. Here are my slides from the Convio " Social Media for Social Good " for tomorrow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

It is really bizarre, but this afternoon I've been struggling with the notion about the connection between individual adoption and organizational adoption of social media tools like Facebook or others. There is some great thinking about how social media can be used in nonprofits for personal development. Shut It Down!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

First there was a flickr group for NpTech Dogs and then we started seeing NpTechers with dog profiles on their Facebook profiles. It didn't take too long before we dogs (a lab no less) has appeared on a nonprofit app called Managing News. NTEN posts about screencast about GoogleAps and SalesForce Integration for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Steve MacLaughlin, publisher of Connections For a while now I've been talking with a lot of nonprofits about using social media and social networking in their organizations. Will people give through Facebook? Is that MySpace friend an activist? Before starting to create a strategy it makes sense to set a baseline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Things You Can Do in Ten Minutes to Be A Better Nonprofit. Go to the nonprofit twitter pack find and follow ten people who may learn something from. Truly embrace social networking by encouraging your staff, your volunteers, your donors and your Board to join Facebook or Myspace and teach(!) Professional. Lisa Neal ) 2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

It's unclear whether this advantage will withstand a larger number of people sharing more items or as more rooms are set up (already we have a nonprofit room, a nonprofit and web2.0 There was also a bit of reflection to identify how to efficiently use FriendFeed and determine its value to nonprofit. So it's more selective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

We are a national nonprofit that works with documentary filmmakers to help them create their outreach plans. MySpace - to stay connected / reach out to potential supporters. Facebook - to stay connected / reach out to potential supporters. I want to be able to tell the story of our online campaigns in a narrative way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

It is a valuable way to think how your nonprofit's target audience fits into the social media landscape. I've noticed this in the nptech stream, we have conversations scattered in listservs, forums, blogs, twitter, facebook, myspace, and other social media nooks and crannies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. Michael Stein has an interview with Jonathan Coleman about his success building a donor base on Facebook. Heather Mansfield, Making It On MySpace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2009

I saw so many pearls of wisdom that are definitely translatable to anyone who is doing social media, whether full-time or just a few hours week or for a nonprofit. I get to use sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace for a living! Her advice about work routine is particularly valuable. Social Marketing and SEO related.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. NpTech Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

This year's program is heavily weighted to the "social web" and nonprofits. Nonprofits lag behind the corporate sector. The nonprofit sector is the long snail - helping the 99% of nonprofits that are providing 50% of the services to obtain the resources. We have definitions of legit nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Here's what some nonprofit technology bloggers posted - Paul Lamb , Allison Fine , and Deborah Finn. The Nonprofit Blog Exchange shares Roundup #9. The Getting Attention Blog hosted a Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic of Professional Development for nonprofit marketers. Today is Stop Cyberbullying Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

If you want to get involved in social change issues or work with nonprofits anyplace on the globe, the Idealist is one of the first desinations on the web you should visit. Action Without Borders is an 11 year-old nonprofit organization with an amazing history of accomplishment and growth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Social networking sites such as MySpace and Palo Alto's Facebook have exploded in popularity, drawing new users into the fold each day. Recently, my friends on the other side of the pond were talking about what skills sets/job roles nonprofits need in-house to take advantage of social media strategies ( here , here , and here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

We hear it almost every day - another organization who is wildly successful on Facebook or Twitter or MySpace. Sounds silly, of course - but that is really what we are asking when we ask, “What should I talk about on Twitter or Facebook or MySpace?” Submitted by Hildy Gottlieb, publisher of Creating the Future!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

It's a project of a nonprofit organization called mySociety , based in the UK. PledgeBank plays well with others -- you can share your pledge via Facebook, on your blog, on your MySpace page, and with sites like Digg and del.icio.us. those might be. " Really, the applications are pretty limitless.

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